The volcanic eruption that ravaged Pompeii in year 79 is one of the most famous in history. It is known how its victims died, but how did they live? A new insight into the lives of the people who lived in the shadow of Mount Vesuvius before its cataclysmic eruption.
In 25 AD, Judah Ben-Hur, a Jew in ancient Judea, opposes the occupying Roman empire. Falsely accuse...
In summer 2003, when the heatwave hit in Europe, in Switzerland, the glacier below the Schnidejoch p...
The rebellious Thracian Spartacus, born and raised a slave, is sold to Gladiator trainer Batiatus. A...
Determined to hold on to the throne, Cleopatra seduces the Roman emperor Julius Caesar. When Caesar ...
At the turn of the sixteenth century, Michelangelo (Mark Frankel), Raphael (Andrea Prodan), and Leon...
The great King of Dacia, Decebal (Decebalus), is disposed to make the ultimate sacrifice in order to...
The story of Edgardo Mortara, a young Jewish boy living in Bologna, Italy, who in 1858, after being ...
Who is Jesus, and why does he impact all he meets? He is respected and reviled, emulated and accused...
In 1587, more than 100 English colonists settle on Roanoke Island and soon vanish, baffling historia...
With an area three times larger than Pompeii, Baia, about 15 km from Naples and within the volcanic ...
The assassination of the would-be ruler of Rome at the hands of Brutus and company has tragic conseq...
In Israel, a joint French-Israeli scientific mission is set to unearth the secrets of the hill of Ki...
Titus Andronicus returns from the wars and sees his sons and daughters taken from him, one by one. S...
In the year 180 A.D. Germanic tribes are about to invade the Roman empire from the north. In the mid...
David Attenborough brings to life, in unprecedented detail, the last days of the dinosaurs. Palaeon...
When two brothers are forced to fight in the Korean War, the elder decides to take the riskiest miss...
After fierce Roman commander Marcus Vinicius becomes infatuated with beautiful Christian hostage Lyg...
The story of a poor young woman, separated by prejudice from her husband and baby, is interwoven wit...